Your kitten Pockets hates water - but your little brother Patrick takes great delight

in putting her in the tub and turning on the shower. To young Patrick's amazement,
Pockets eventually learns to turn off the water.

This behavior may be attributed to:
(a) positive reinforcement
(b) negative reinforcement
(c) the Skinner-Box graph
(d) mere chance

B

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Studies of patients with conduction aphasia have led to which of the following conclusions about the neural control of language?

A) The parietal lobe analyzes the sounds of words. B) Wernicke's aphasia is not a form of receptive aphasia. C) There are different neural paths for sounds and for meanings of words. D) The meanings of words are stored in the right parietal cortex. E) The arcuate fasciculus sends information about the meaning of words to the frontal lobes.

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